OPS 3435 (KH-7 6 / Gambit-1 Mission 4006), a U.S. Air Force/NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Atlas LV-3A Agena-D from Point Arguello LC-2-3 lofted it on 11 March 1964 into polar LEO for close-look imaging of Soviet targets.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 15 Atlas LV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 11 March 1964, 20:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1964-012
- Launches in 1964
- 13th of 100
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